School administrators say online courses in K-12 classrooms can give students the skills they’ll need in college and the workplace. Indeed, the presence of online courses in primary and secondary schools is a growing trend across the country.
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CROTON-ON-HUDSON: Thirteen Croton-Harmon High School seniors will benefit this year from online courses offered via a global consortium titled Virtual High School. This fall, six seniors are taking electives unavailable at CHHS, while another seven are enrolled for the spring. This is the program’s first year at CHHS.
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“We are shifting from a whole-group mentality to an individual-child mentality,” said John White, the DOE deputy chancellor in charge of labor and innovation in schools. Because some of these programs allow children to learn at their own pace, the teacher “can spend more time with each individual child over the course of the day. Research has shown that individual attention is an enormous tool,” he said.
The concept of blending an online learning environment with traditional teaching is growing in public schools. Across the country, an estimated 1 million elementary and high school students were engaged in online courses in 2007-08, up 47% from the year before, according to Anthony G. Picciano, a professor and executive officer of the Ph.D. program in urban education at the City University of New York.
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NEW YORK , Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ — An increasing number of schools are turning to online learning solutions to meet student needs: 75 percent of school districts have students currently enrolled in fully online or blended courses. The number of students engaged in online courses has increased by more than 45 percent in the last three years.
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